A lawsuit filed by a current student claims the school's governing council violated the terms of its 19th-century charitable trust by planning to admit girls from 2026.
Inner west boys’ school Newington College is set to go into 2025 facing the possibility of two legal battles over its controversial plans to admit girls to the 161-year-old institution. A current student has launched action in the NSW Supreme Court alleging that the school’s governing council contravened the terms of the school’s 19th-century charitable trust by implementing its plan to admit girls from 2026.
A student claims the school council has breached its duties under the terms of its charitable trust by planning to admit girls. A statement of claim filed last Thursday says members of the school council had breached their duties of an original deed of indenture by considering, and planning to implement, the move to co-ed. It says the word “youth” used in the original 1873 trust is limited to the education and advancement of boys and young men and that the school’s governing council “breached the Trust Purpose by paying, applying and/or setting aside trust funds held subject to the Trust Purpose on in connection with implementing its decision to transition Newington College into a co-educational school.” The boy – known as student A – cannot be identified after the court issued a non-disclosure order and a psychiatrist’s report said he faced being bullied and shunned if his identity was to become known. Graduates, as well as parents of current Newington College students, are pictured outside the school earlier this year protesting against the move to co-ed.“The alleged comment by a college house mentor that it’s a shame the police didn’t have pepper spray (for the parents protesting outside the school) within hearing of students, which if deemed credible illustrates this risk,” the report said. “Participation as a known individual would cast Student A as an adversary and a threat, and potentially, a kind of ‘traitor’ to the school’s governing body and staff, and by extension to the school itsel
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